JoeBob

I think JTE is an improvement over QU. The matrix is easy to understand. There are enough variables so that you can build on a strong area to compensate for a weakness, and still score high. It's simpler approach makes it easier for new Cub leaders to get with the program and feel that they've had an impact. I'm just too lazy to change out a temporary patch every year. So the boys wear 'em.

My 10 yer old daughter quit GS after 4 years. She had too much fun on Cub Scout family camping trips. The GS Camping trips were multi-inhabitant fancy bunkhouses. (My tomboy probably doesn't like being trapped in close quarters with that many girls...) She definitely does not like knitting. Now she is waiting to turn 14 so she can venture.

Ah, the PC Police. Why is it that the folks preaching tolerance are usually the most intolerant?

My apologies for the flip comment about 'Professional Scouters' last night. My reaction was based more on my perception of the watered-down lawyer-filtered training BSA 'Professional Scouters' are putting out, and should not have been a blanket condemnation. In my youth I was exposed to some very high quality professional scouters, and I'm sure that there area few good ones out there still. I was out of line. Sorry. Thanks for re-directing me. JoeBob

Show of hands from everyone who thinks the term 'Professional Scouter' is an expletive? Apologies to all the professional scouters on the board... Two hands up from all the professional scouters who think the term 'Professional Scouter' is an expletive?

LisaBob, I can't say that I disagree with you. http://www.france24.com/en/20110321-libya-arab-league-amr-moussa-backtracking-split-ranks-again Ain't no telling which way this will go. Ironic circle: it was while fighting the Barbary Pirates off Tripoli that the Marines earned the nickname 'leatherneck'. Hard leather collars were laced around the neck to hinder throat slitting.

The double bitted axe was useful for production quantity logging. You had two sharp blades to start with, and a double bitted axe is a cinch to sharpen in the woods. Sink one blade in a stump and sharpen the one that's up. Flip for side two. jrush - thanks for the update regarding LNT. I know of a hunt club that needs some sight-lines cleared...

You downplayed your mention of what has to have been the most significant fact: "On December 19, 2003, long-time Libyan President Moammar Gaddafi stunned much of the world by renouncing Tripolis weapons of mass destruction (WMD) programs and welcoming international inspectors to verify that Tripoli would follow through on its commitment. http://www.armscontrol.org/factsheets/LibyaChronology So let's see if we can noodle this out. 2001 - the US (Cowboy Captain)invades Iraq. 2003 - the US (Cowboy Captain)has a few free resources in the Mideast, so Libya says, "Whoa! Don't look a

Ah Ha! It IS Bush's fault! And the Tokyo earthquake is because of global warming...

Buckytom, I'd like to apologize for some of the non-advise thrown at you by a few of our board members. Political correctness isn't always so sensitive. There is a lot going on in the world right now that would put a certain mindset in a cranky mood. (Not meant to be a topic for 'Issues and Politics'. Meant to be a caveat for bad behavior.) Is your meeting room large enough to separate the Chatty Cathy's from the center of your Tiger meeting? If the separatists want to gab about whatever in the corner, it would be less in the faces of the other parents. Another tact to con

Paul Bunyan was about wood cutting skills. Recognize how to use use the physics of a bladed tool and it's momentum against the grain of large pieces of wood. I admit that most places scouts go today are not swamped with sapling poplars and 4" sweetgums that need clearing. (And make for dandy pioneering bridges!) LNT makes it anathema to break a green twig, so felling a tree is certainly grounds for excommunication. What are you going to do when a 20" tree blows down on your road home? Use your cell phone to call a tree service with chain saws? How are you going to free your pinched

Thanks TAHAWK, Looks like they've totally castrated it. So much for basic firewood skills.

The logistics involved in getting your son to and from his den meetings, if you were leading a different den, would dilute anyone's enthusiasm. This would be especially relevant in Packs that are not organized around a local school.

To the nearest million tons; in any given year, how much coal was exported from West Virginia? The unprepared student's answer: "200BC, Zero."

Stays the same. JoeBob

Is Paul Bunyan still taught anywhere? Hatchet, Axe, Double-bitted Axe, Splitting Maul, Wedge and Sledge, and Crosscut Saw?

1- I'm fairly ignorant of the delicacies involved with the patrol method. Still working my way back up from Den Leader; but: 2- Why don't you put all the slackers in the same patrol? Even temporarily? You don't work, you don't eat. You don't pitch tents, you sleep under the stars, or clouds, or rain...

Top ten ways to tell if you might be a member of a public-sector union: 10.) You take a week off to protest in Wisconsin and your office runs better. 9.) On a snow day when they say non-essential people should stay home you know who they mean. 8.) You get paid twice as much as a private sector person doing the same job but make up the difference by doing half as much work. 7.) It takes longer to fire you than the average killer spends on death row. 6.) The worse you do your job, the more your boss avoids you. 5.) You think the French are working themselves to death. 4.) You kn

Credit Neal Boortz for this perspective: Do you really think that this fight between the unions and Gov. Scott Walker in Wisconsin was about collective bargaining? The real issue was something called a dues check-off, not collective bargaining. That's a system whereby your employer, in this case the government, deducts union dues from your paycheck before you actually get paid. The dues are then forwarded to the union. Unions, of course, love this because they know that sometimes people just aren't all that thrilled about paying their union dues; especially when those dues get close

Beavah, I'm glad to see that you're supporting Gov Walkers efforts to tidy up the union contracts. After all, the point of your post is "if some tom-fool of a CEO agrees to such a contract, isn't that his fault?" The previous Democrats in control of WI agreed to a 'tom-fooled comtract'. The contract is up for renewal. The new administration, (Sherm: Exec, Senate, and House - Not just King Walker...) are refusing to renew the tomfoolery. Glad to have you on board.

Gov. Scott Walker on Monday afternoon responded to comments President Barack Obama made earlier in the day about the protests in Madison: Walkers office issued this statement: I'm sure the President knows that most federal employees do not have collective bargaining for wages and benefits while our plan allows it for base pay. And I'm sure the President knows that the average federal worker pays twice as much for health insurance as what we are asking for in Wisconsin. At least I would hope he knows these facts. Furthermore, Im sure the President knows that we have repeatedly pr

The Catamarran started as a clever way to use the standard kit, better: http://webpages.charter.net/cschott/boat/supercat.html A diagram of how to cut the hull. http://webpages.charter.net/cschott/boat/construction.html There are lots of videos on Utube showing these boats waking the single hulls.

Real jerks can be still stink at 301 feet...

No winners? No competition? No trophies? To avoid hurt feelings? May as well see who can knit the biggest sweater. Oops! Sorry. 'Biggest' implies there would be a winner...

Here you go Bacchus, same story different publication: "3M CEO George Buckley called Obama's policies "Robin Hood-esque" and told the Financial Times that manufacturers like 3M may have to shift production to other countries in order to stay competitive." http://money.cnn.com/2011/02/28/news/companies/3M_CEO_Obama/index.htm?hpt=T2(This message has been edited by joebob)